We would like to install ColdFusion 10 on our web server but it's a 4 vCPU virtaul server. Our license is for 2 physical CPUs. When installing the software we receive a CPU count warning. My question is, can we install and use ColdFusion on this box and just have it limit itself to 2 CPUs or will it simply not work?
Thank you for the reply. I've read the blog post but I'm still not quite clear how this works out for a virtual server that is not using physical CPUs but are using 4 cores that are setup as virtual CPUs. Technically, this installation would be using 4 cores = 1 CPU but because it's virtuallized, the operating system is reporting 4 proccessors, which is triggering the CPU count warning during installation.
but are using 4 cores that are setup as virtual CPUs.
The ColdFusion installer would check both the conditions- 8 (2*4cores) cores and 2 CPUs. If any one of them fails, it would not install with the license.
What is the virtualization platform software? VMware, Windows Hyper-V, or something else? If VMWare, you can configure the virtual server to have 1 CPU with 4 cores or 2 CPUs with 2 cores each instead of 4 CPUs with 1 core each. You *might* be able to do something similar in Hyper-V. That might satisfy the licensing?
Unfortunately, this is Hyper-V and from my research through the documentation, there is no way to associate multiple cores to a single virtual CPU. You can only assign the number of vCPUs but no way to assign cores per processor.
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